Dear SEALS deans, program committee members, and supporters, I am pleased to report that our 74th annual meeting has come to a successful conclusion. But what an unusual year! Coming into 2020, with terrific help from our members and attendees, we had prepared a terrific program for this year’s meeting. Then, the pandemic hit and an […]

Submitted by Corinna Lain Three-hour long discussion sessions at SEALS are always a bit tricky—it’s fun to get with old friends and make new ones, and fun to brainstorm ideas and geek out on the law, but that’s a loooong time to talk about stuff, even stuff that’s interesting. Sometime after the first hour of […]

Submitted by Gary Simson This 3-hour discussion, masterfully organized and moderated by Joan Heminway, was the first in a series of sessions that will make up this conference’s Aspiring Law Professors Workshop.  The discussion participants included 7 current faculty from across the country, some of whom are or were deans or associate deans, and 15 […]

Submitted by Caprice Roberts SEALS Scholarship Committee Discussion Group Spotlight SEALS Virtual Conference 2020 30 July 2020 Caprice Roberts, The George Washington University Law School Remedies Discussion Group: Remedies in Context We would have loved to connect in person, but our participants and observers found the SEALS Zoom experience to be productive and convivial. We […]

Submitted by Colin Marks Discussion Group: “The Ric Flair Rule: Market Economics, Political Power, and Critical Awareness in a Global World.” This discussion group took wrestler Ric Flair’s saying “To be the man, you have to beat the man” and applied it to a number of modern issues. The discussants brought expertise from tax, bankruptcy, […]

Dear SEALS Colleagues, I am very pleased to announce that the 74th Annual Conference of the Southeastern Association of Law Schools (SEALS) is still going to be held, albeit in a different format. The Covid-19 virus has forced all of us to abruptly alter our personal and professional lives in ways that we could not […]

Updated 5/4/20 Dear Deans, Program Committee Members and SEALS Friends, I hope that everyone is staying safe during this pandemic, and that you are surviving as best you can. The Covid-19 situation presents a special problem for the upcoming SEALS meeting.  Even if we receive the “all clear” for a late July meeting, which is […]